Concept sheets

This is my origional sketch for Gloria, the sketch is pretty clean in terms of mistakes but the few mistakes i will see in editing will of corse be corrected, the mistakes i can see right now include, the breast and t-shirt fold preportions as well as the key doesnt seem to link in any way so i will edit that out!

I liften the visible breast up a few millimetres because it looked odd as well as adjusted the placement of the shading, I decided to give her shirt a flower pattern as well as change the key to a flower to show her passion to become a florist, I limited myself to 3 colours for shading, a darker, a lighter and a base

I thought the concept sheet looked a little dull so i added 50% opacity circles behind the text, using the same colour as the flowers on her shirt to keep it looking cheerful and busy!

Undertakers reference needed a lot of changing, the sketching was rushed at the time, not because i was running out of time but because i wanted to test myself on the computer.

It took a while to make the adjustments, moving the hands so that they join to the sleeves or making the sleeves. Duplicating the eye like in glories and showing a blind eye and a non blind eye.

I felt the full skull did not need to be shown in this so i cropped it to a smaller size and stashed it in a corner so it was not the centre of attention.

I formed the skull on the spiders back, moving the eyes to position and creating the outline for it.

but most of my time was simply just cleaning the sketches.

I decided to keep the spiral blush on the cheeks to show expression, I added it to undertakers reference to show consistancy.

It was interesting seeing the close up if the characters costumes and the size difference, Hagrid always was my favourite!

The floor was made from real stone to withstand the wear of time, showing that even though the floor wasn't exactly something I could point out in the movie, still had a lot of thought put into it.

you can see that the roof is none existent, it is merely to make it easier to edit for the film

A 3D model of the room I was just in.

Some costumes for the characters, I particularly like the red one, the fur gives of an expensive look While the colour gives an air of romance or danger.

I found the ice/glass decorations interesting, it gives me a better understanding of how such forms would look with the light shining under it, the light does not go all the way through To the top it dulls  but certain points reflect some of the light.

A messy makeup table, the character i imagine it forwould be self conscious, trying to make themselves someone else So that they feel braver

However it is most likely just a table for the make up artist i do like to give extra stories

I thought this quote was important to put on here as it expresses how character is not only personallity but how it is shown to others.

crooked or 'messy' picture frames on a wall over a ram headed caldron holder

the dorms for the wizards, each had different blankets which also shows their character and how wealthy they are in muggle world.

A wyvern skeleton perched on the wall, this shows they thought

A twisted corridor, which got smaller the closer you looked, it gave a nausious feel to it as well as an unsafe one.

Comic in motion

My first comic page is possibly my favourite because of the ball pen technique, where you use lines for shading, it gives off a rough texture which fits the mood of the comic but i mostly like the first panel where it shows off a closeup of the main characters most vulnerable moment as a spider.

To improve this page i would have practiced different flowers as well as focus on making an exciting background.

Here is what it looks like finished, i decided to add more than just the sketchy shading, black and white was more dynamic but i wanted a middle tone to try and show the comic is soft, it could be to fool the viewer into thinking they won't be thrown into anything but end up in tears or it could be to show its not black and white, good and bad there is a beginning, a middle and an end.

The choice in the layout fell to this as it is easier to read as well as it could represent a spider dangling from a web, it would not be hanging width wise or in a packed web, then it would be comfortable and sturdy, but it it tangled from a single strand of silk it would be easily blown away.

Step by step

First thing to do would be to crop and clean the image

after cropping i would go to image- adjustments- layers, and then i would drag the black arrow to where the black mountain starts, then i would move the grey arrow closer to the black one so that it will lighten the image which will help the lines stand out.

then i would go to image-adjustments-curves, I will play about with it until the lines become darker and the background becomes clearer

once that is done i will go to image- adjustments-selective colour and drag every colour to -100 except black, continue doing this part until there are no visible colours left, then clean up and marks left over

I immediately coloured the background so that the shading will be the focus, the shading is white added where it is necessary or where it would stand out.

after the shading is done i will need to go to illustrator to add little details, such as the boundaries of each cell, speech bubbles and text, i do this in adobe illustrator because it does not blend with the colours and instead stands out perfectly.

It is still a work in progress but I have managed to make my own blog for the comics

http://thehuggerscomics.tumblr.com/

I chose Tumblr because it is one of the most frequented blog sites and I am more likely to be noticed there, However it seemed to have a problem with the comic sizes, I did not want to shrink the image as it would affect the quality and so i cropped each panel to be posted separately, because of the layout i have chosen it is still read in the same layout

I have recently thought of changing the story, so that he is fully human when his wish was granted but when he helps Gloria his wish is broken but he is finally happy, this leaves him between human and spider but his new 'imperfect' out look on life makes him able to smile and experience emotions for the first time.

Games

As well as reading I got help for my plots with playing games, some games have their own lore and comics while others have you guessing or in some cases don't have plots at all, which are not helpful and are what I will not be talking about but an example would be pac-man or super hexagon.


Skyrim;  follows the story of a chosen one, you,  who upon arriving in this new land was arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and sent to be executed, however the trial was stopped because of the reawakening of Dragons in the land (though the dragons shown are wyverns because of the 4 limbs they have, if they had 6 they would be dragons).

You are the only one who could keep the dragons dead by absorbing their souls, you are known as the Dovahkiin, or dragonborn.

There is a war at this point so you must choose a side between the imperials and the stormcloaks, the imperials have been in charge for thousands of years and have only recently made an alliance with the high elves which sparked the war as the high elves banned the worshipping of talos, in response the stormcloaks wanted to gain power and with the recent murder of the high king became confident.


Wolf amoung us follows the stories of fairy tale characters after their stories had been finished, you play the big bad wolf who is feared greatly by most. you must investigate a murder of a fable (fairy tale person) infront of your office, while investigating you find out that the murders are only a cover up for far more darker things.

This man chose similar choices to what I made so would be a great example of the game from my perspective.

I love tell tale games style of art it looks sketchy and comic like.


Walking dead, another game by tell tale, based on comics which also lead to a TV show, follows the tale of Lee a ex history teacher who killed a man who was cheating with his wife, he witnesses a lot of death around him as the game progresses and looses both friends and acquaintances. The game has lots of choices which effect not only the peoples around him but the second season immensely which is following a young girl he was taking care of.

The style is a lot like they are trying to force a 3D image back into 2D, all the textures are merely the lines and shading.

Shadowrunners Return follows the story of you, an shadowrunner, which is someone who takes the law into their own hands in this world but not always legally, and you are trying to find your best friends and runner buddys killer, he contacts you with a recorded message as if he suspected to be murdered however the deeper you search the darker to truth is, the killer you suspected all along is apart of some otherworldly cult which wishes to summon immortal creatures to your world in order for themselves to be 'free'.

Battleblock theatre is a surprisingly dark humour or potty humoured game where you are trapped on an island with your party buddies after your ship crashes into it and you get taken captive by super intelligent cats who want you to go through trails for their own amusement while you try to rescue your friends you suspect your good friend has joined the cats side, or has been brainwashed and when you finish the trails(which should really be played in multiplayer!) you get to hatty(your friend) only to find out he has lost himself or has died.
all the while a talkative narrator gives you a puppet show and some strange jokes

The style is simple but cute, no real expressions are given to the characters except their mouths and that is only given in the puppet shows or with the heads you can get

Theatre

After watching the last theatre performance at North Notts College from the theatrical arts performance, as well as drawing out some of the characters as the play was happening, I found it interesting how the different scenes were presented or reinterpreted through songs and costumes and thus started looking into a few performances on youtube.

Not sure where this song is from however I found it interesting because of the amount of drama in it, there is no hidden story behind it, these women are in prison for murdering their partners, but the song is all about justifying it by saying 'if you were there' implying you would make the same choice, I picked this one as it was a little well known, even having a male parody version which I found better as a performance than part of a movie.

I have no watched the full musical however from this clip I gather a story of a woman on a ship in the middle of a war, as their ship gets torn to pieces her partner tries to convince her everything will be alright however her fear was great, the fear that if she closes her eyes to sleep she will never wake up, which she does and drowns with the ship.

Adams family has always been a personal favourite of mine, and if you look at the family in a whole they are in a happy, sane relationship with one another with few arguments and everything they do together is to show trust unlike most families on television today. This moment in the film is when Gomez's brother Uncle Fester has returned seemingly with all his memories back and to celebrate they throw a huge party with their family to welcome him, the dance seems dangerous but the coordination as well as the commitment to the dance shows to one another just how deep their trust really is.

Spiders

While looking up the right body for the undertakers story I got the idea to design his spider self first, then work around that for his more humanoid design, male Ladybird Spiders are adorable and friendly in both appearance and the fact that they are completely harmless to humans.

Though the size difference between male and female is a bit intimidating.

Spiders do not only use web to catch prey, some use it as a net to throw or capture prey by jumping and stalking while some, like this trap door spider, use it to hide themselves to they can pounce on unsuspecting prey by lifting up the trap door.

Scientists have genetically engineered goats to produce silk in their milk! however it isn't as strong as spiders but it is progress

There are some snakes such as the Rough Green Snake that eat insects and arachnids, so do birds, mammals, and reptiles but the main villain is themselves because of how territorial they are.

Designing the monster

After collecting votes on different shape faces I  have come to the idea that the monster in the story Worrying forest, should be small and mouse like with a rounded face and a starfish like noes or sensory attachment.

I first looked into Skinny pig because of their lack of fur and their odd looks compared to the furred counterpart. however i do not think i will be using this information in the final monster.

I also looked into glow worms because of their luminescent tail and shell, I think i will be using this information for the final design of the monster.

Because of the rounded faces i thought it would be a good idea to look into mouse skulls, however they were not as round as i expected, of course i could always make the shape much rounder to emphasise it but the skulls were very interesting, the rat skull (the one at the back) was the most intrieging because it was rounder than the mice ones as well as stronger which i may take into account for the monster in mind.

I looked a bit more into rats to be sure they were the right shape and character for this monster

I am thinking that its head is made of a transparent jelly, similar in appearance to the glow worms tail but you can see its skull, which would be similar to a rats with in it, the starfish noes is still up for debate